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Can This New Hawaii Venture Become The Stock Fund For Millennials? Stewart Yerton/Civil Beat

Can This New Hawaii Venture Become The Stock Fund For Millennials?

A Colorado portfolio manager has big plans for a $44 million S&P 500 index fund that he has brought to Hawaii.

Tourists Scramble As Oahu Vacation Rentals Disappear Under New Law Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Tourists Scramble As Oahu Vacation Rentals Disappear Under New Law

Amid mass Airbnb cancellations, one local bride said two of her bridesmaids can no longer attend her wedding.

Short-Term Rental Owners Consider Options: Lease, Sell Or Leave It Vacant?

Short-Term Rental Owners Consider Options: Lease, Sell Or Leave It Vacant?

Early indications suggest the legislation is working as intended to limit tourists in residential areas and make units available to residents.

This Hawaii Entrepreneur Wants To Build The Moon’s First ‘Airport’ NASA

This Hawaii Entrepreneur Wants To Build The Moon’s First ‘Airport’

Henk Rogers, an early backer of pushing Hawaii toward using 100% renewable energy, has a new idea: use a crew of construction-worker robots to build an underground moon base.

Mauna Kea Tour Companies Are Out Of Luck For Now Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

Mauna Kea Tour Companies Are Out Of Luck For Now

Businesses that take visitors up the mountain are stymied. And even if the protests end, Thirty Meter Telescope construction will be disruptive.

Measuring The Costs and Benefits of Windward Oahu Tourism Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Measuring The Costs and Benefits of Windward Oahu Tourism

UH researchers are sending questionnaires to thousands of residents of Kailua, a once-sleepy beach town inundated by tourists in recent years

Is Ward Village Headed To The Auction Block? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Is Ward Village Headed To The Auction Block?

The development’s owner said Thursday it is considering spinning off assets.

Kakaako’s Empty Condos: ‘At Night, It鈥檚 A Ghost Town Down Here’ Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Kakaako’s Empty Condos: ‘At Night, It鈥檚 A Ghost Town Down Here’

Merchants say they leased new space in Ward Village expecting to benefit from the proximity of hordes of condo-dwellers. Now they wonder where they are.

HTA: Visitors In Vacation Homes Spend Less Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2018

HTA: Visitors In Vacation Homes Spend Less

Hawaii Tourism Authority data might seem merely to quantify the obvious, but the data could explain a trend that concerns local economists

Economists: Higher Revenue Estimates Do Not Signal Economic Growth In Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Economists: Higher Revenue Estimates Do Not Signal Economic Growth In Hawaii

Experts attribute unexpected revenue boost to increased income tax rate for higher-income earners.